10,000 hours is all it takes

Did anybody catch author Malcolm Gladwell on the CBS Early Show yesterday? As I watched Harry introduce him I thought "What. The. Hell. Is this dude a Willy Wonka wannabe or what?" I mean, SERIOUSLY! Look at this hair:




Creepy, Right?

And then, I heard one of the most fascinating theories ever. Malcolm suggests something that we all have heard a million times before: Practice makes perfect. We have been told this since grade school but it hasn't sunk in before like it did when I heard Malcolm's theory on it. Of course he takes it a step further than just practice, practice, practice. An example he uses is Mozart. He says that Mozart had to write music for over 10 years before he wrote anything that was actually good. Of course, it sounds stupidly simple but you have to read his book Outliers to get the full gist of it. Apparently, he has written scores of these types of books. Genius, I tell ya! I'm going to be a ballerina!